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FC Bayern München are the league leaders at the midway stage of the season – unofficially known as autumn champions – for the sixth season running and 22nd time in total.

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For only the sixth time in the history of the Bundesliga, a team has made it through the entire first half of the campaign unbeaten. Hats off to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, who follow in the footsteps of Bayern (three times), Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Hamburger SV.

Watch:Sandro Wagner on Hoffenheim's unbeaten streak:

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Bayern have won their last 27 games against sides that have just been promoted.

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For the 13th season in a row, Borussia Dortmund avoided defeat in their first game back after the winter break.

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Hakan Calhanoglu scored a Bundesliga brace for Bayer Leverkusen for the first time. He had once previously found the net twice in a game: for Hamburg against Eintracht Braunschweig in August 2013.

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VfL Wolfsburg are now 11 games unbeaten against northern rivals Hamburg (six wins, five draws) – they have never had a longer unbeaten run against a single opponent in their Bundesliga history.

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Torsten Frings followed in the footsteps of his eight predecessors (four draws, four defeats) on the SV Darmstadt 98 bench by failing to win on his debut.

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Robert Lewandowski scored his 134th and 135th Bundesliga goals against Freiburg, taking him ahead of Giovane Elber as the second most prolific foreign goalscorer in Bundesliga history (behind Claudio Pizarro).

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Lewandowski scored his fifth brace of the season – more than anybody else in the Bundesliga this term.

Watch:Lewandowski reacts to Bayern win:

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Lukasz Piszczek levelled his personal best for a single season (from 2011/12) with his fourth goal of the current campaign.

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Leverkusen conceded for the sixth time following a corner this season when Hertha's Valentin Stocker poked home from close range. It was the capital club's first goal following a corner this season.

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Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig are the league's best two early starters: no other club have scored as many as the eight goals they have netted in the opening 15 minutes of their games.

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Darmstadt's wait for a goal is now almost nine hours long (534 minutes).

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Lukas Hradecky was on the field for just 131 seconds before being shown the red card in Eintracht Frankfurt's 3-0 defeat at Leipzig. It was the second-fastest dismissal in Bundesliga history, and the quickest for a goalkeeper.

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Thomas Delaney became the 31st player SV Werder Bremen have sent onto the field in a Bundesliga fixture this season. Never before have a club used so many players in the first half of a season.

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HSV succumbed to their tenth defeat of the season – more than they have ever had in the first half of a season.

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Albin Ekdal saw his fifth red card of the season in HSV's defeat to Wolfsburg, three of which have come before half-time.

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Frankfurt's Omar Mascarell is the only player to have been booked nine times this season.

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Leipzig are the best promoted club ever at the midway stage of the season, with 39 points and a goal difference of +19, making them just one goal better off than 1. FC Kaiserslautern (also 39 points, +16 goals) in 1997/98, when they went on to win the title.

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Yunus Malli's departure to VfL Wolfsburg meant 1. FSV Mainz 05 were without the midfielder agaist 1. FC Köln for the first time in 86 consecutive league games.

Yunus Malli left Mainz for Wolfsburg in the January transfer window.

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Against Köln, Mainz failed to score for the first time at home this season.